When being "of size" helps
Hamster 'saved by being too fat'
A hamster reportedly cheated death when he was sucked up by a vacuum cleaner - because he was too fat to go down the tube.
According to the Daily Express Rusher, a nine-month old hamster, had escaped from his cage and was sucked up while Amanda Horniman, from Tibberton in Gloucestershire, was cleaning her son's bedroom.
But his weight meant he got jammed in the tube before getting sucked into the vacuum bag, which would have killed him.
Mrs Horniman's husband Nick, who is a vet, said: "Rusher got stuck in the pipe, but Amanda had seen him just before he went up so she stopped the machine to get him out.
"Fortunately, he blocked the tube and didn't go into the machine's motor. If he had been a thin hamster, things would have been a lot worse."
Mr Horniman removed Rusher and took him to his surgery for a check-up before returning him to his cage.
